DSG 339: Character: Abandoned Robot

[dsg bot]

Today's topic is: Character: Abandoned Robot

[lance]

lol
i need sleephttp://home.jam.rr.com/artoflance/abdnrobot%20copy.jpg

[Hagac]

He's lonley
http://www.angelfire.com/art2/hagaart/images/abandonedHAGA.jpg

[Form]

trust....right after ive done like 50 bots in my sketchbook, i have to come up with another idea :(!

well, i guess im warmed up already!

[Defunct]

Long time no dsg..

http://img8.photobucket.com/albums/v28/Defunct/droid.jpg

Hagac : nice!

[MrMojo]

Very cool, Hagac.

[JoB]

Left to rust ...

http://w1.131.comhem.se/~u13115312/images/abandonedrobot.jpg

Bah, still a bit flat ... and almost no background ... and NOW I notice one leg is quite a bit longer than the other ...

Oh, well, paint and learn ...

[Gumdrop]

Inspired by a documentry I saw about abandoned WWII artillery and tanks on the islands in the Pacific. Should have made it more rusty and defined the whole thing better, but I was trying to get the background right and ran out of time.

Abandoned American Spider Sentry [references used]
http://bluntedtaffer.50megs.com/DSG/DSG339_AbandonedRobot.jpg

[kaptah]

Inspirated by current weather here in Helsinki.

http://www.sannahellstrom.com/cg/robo.jpg

[Form]

Well, here it is. Figured thered be lots of neglected, rusting robots so i took a different angle.

This is a robot from the "forgotten" civilisation of the Mayans. Anthropologists used to admire their advanced calendars and irrigation systems, but it wasn't until the discovery of Olaxicot'l
that the true power of the mayan civilisation was discovered.

http://img16.photobucket.com/albums/v47/formsketch/Forgotbot.jpg

[Tenelaus]

First postage..
http://www.piratesarrus.co.uk/CA/Dsg-339.jpg

Damn impressive stuff around here.

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/dsg/shovel_bot_dead.jpg

[RETEP]

http://img16.photobucket.com/albums/v48/dingoegret/abandoned_robot_dsg_exp.jpg

[Hermchen]

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/abandonedrobot.jpg

Nice work everyone!

Hagac: That ought to be a nice motivation for everyone. Me likes much!

[Hunger_Artist]

lookin good!!


http://members.tripod.com/carlbeu/75636090.jpg

[silentbrain]

http://venimarolka.com/dump/013104-dsg-abandondedrobot.jpg

must...learn...composition...for...tdome...

[elevenrequiem]

tada.. was listening to elliot smith while i painted this one. i think it shows.

http://www.bigamericanproductions.com/1-31%20saddest%20robot.jpg

[SABRE]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/SABRE/ABANDONER_ROBOT.jpg



WHOA SILENT BRAIN IS BACK!! GREAT WORK MAN!!




CIAOO...............................

[F3nix]

quickie

http://sleazyent.com/Images/dsg3.jpg

[Hunger_Artist]

silentbrain- watch some old black & white movies.. and do plenty of thumbs!


F3nix- it looks left behind ~!

[stereophoenix]

http://members.iinet.net.au/~prondoso/dump/robo.jpg

[Jeano]

these are awsome

http://www.giantpixel.com/newsite/dsgrobot.gif

[Hazzard]

here you go couldnt be bothered to finish it
if this link dont work then just right click and copy paste the destination into your explorer address bar.http://aaronsart.5u.com/images/abandon_copy.jpg

[Railboy]

Stereopheonix, you beat me to it... and yours is cuter too. :) Mine ended up looking kind of creepy:

http://www.atomicagedog.com/art/dailysketch/abandonedrobot.jpg

Tenelaus - Nice & moody.
Gumdrop - Awesome, almost photoreal.
Hagac - How long did that take you?

[GirafeEnFeu]

http://img12.photobucket.com/albums/v31/GirafeEnFeu/dsg_003.jpg

(the speech bubble says "good riddance"...and he's holding a teddy bear. Sorry about the bad picture!!)

[dfacto]

Hagac, that rocks.

30 minutes for mine. PS 7.0 as always.
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/dfunkt/339_copy.jpg

[Dementist]

Too bad Imphead doesn't do DSG. He'd be over this one like ants at a picknick.

[nBT]

http://www.mattijsart.com/dsg/dsg339abandonedrobot1.jpg
http://www.mattijsart.com/dsg/dsg339abandonedrobot2.jpg
been busy
both sketches done in 15 mins

[Beatnik]

http://www.zmans.com/misc/dsg_339.jpg

[nBT]

crits:
lance: how is that a robot and how is he abandoned? good thing youre expirimenting in ps
hagac: nice image. i miss the abandoned part
gumdrop: you said it yourself, GREAT trees/light
formnfocus: big story now a good image
tenelaus: welcome
hungerartist, hermchen: good thinking
silentbrain: i dont get it
SABRE: HOWS THAT LEFT BEHIND?
jeano: nice, but not on topic
defunct, job, kaptah, youngpaddy1, dingoegret elevenrequim, fenix, stereophoenix, hazzard, girafeenfeu, defacto, beatnick: ok

railboy: fave

go bite, complain, yell, whatever. im not going to be nice. some other time perhaps.

[johanson]

http://www.andrewjohanson.com/images/robotinkitchen.jpg

Damn, this daily sketch group is a great idea. Thought I'd join in. I guess my robot is less abandoned, and more trapped. whoops. If there were kids playing outside, then it'd be a more abandoned feeling.

hope everyone's having a good day,

-andrew

(today's theme reminds me of a painting I made a few months ago. maybe I'll post it, just for fun.)

[Cybot Floor]

http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/44/555744/640_3732333865626539.jpg
a unloved toy-robot. run out off time with the environment (planed several other abandoned toys...)

sorry, no crits - too tired (it`s latenight in europe...) but great work everybody. especially love the robotgirl...

[Cybot Floor]

btw, here`s what it looks like, when not lurking around in dark child-room-corners ; )
http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/44/555744/400_3263393534323039.jpg

[Iotrez]

Life can be tough for an old robot.


http://homepage.ntlworld.com/simon.davies/AbandonedRobot3.jpg

Beatnik- nice painterly style, maybe could be a bit darker here and there and have some bright streaks of light coming down from surface.

Killrobots - Could use heavier shadows to seperate bot from ground.

eyebooger- love that design, some of the dark lines could maybe be a bit darker.

[Gumdrop]

A really good and varied turnout so far. I don't have time to comment on them all, but as for the ones that caught my eye...

Hagac - Very cool. I love the simple black lines of the skeleton. A remix of an earlier piece?

form_n_focus - Great idea. The design seems perfect for a retro Mayan robo.

Hermchen - God I love that. The colours are great, and I particularly like the rod sticking out of the back of his head, and the slightly skew mouth.

stereophoenix - Aww... what a sweetie. Nice design and brushes.

Hazzard - Man you gotta finish that one. Love the details so far. The face reminds me of The Fly II.

Railboy - Yeah that does creep me out. I think it's the mouth?

nBT - I like the face of the first image. Nice nipples too! :D

Beatnik - I like the overall design, and the shoulder joint detail looks great. Looks a little washed (pun?) out though. I'd like to see stronger colours and texture.

Iotrez - Nice perspective. The head is great.

[killrobots]

long time lurker, first post

http://www.theglasspack.com/ar1.jpg

[lance]

mmm its a huge robot head that a hermit has moved into
maybe ill start writing a description with mine
anyone else not know what it was
,,... ?
http://home.jam.rr.com/artoflance/abdnrobot%20copy.jpg

[eyebooger]

Hermchan: that so freakin awesome! i really like the brush strokes and textures.
Fenix: love the colors and concept


Abandoned female robot that needs some luvin.....trying to expirement with colors....so hard...
http://img12.photobucket.com/albums/v31/eyebooger/robot_copy.jpg

[JackalAnubis]

my second painter work (I wish I had a tablet).... my favs: Hagac, Hermchen, stereophoenix, and eyebooger

http://img12.photobucket.com/albums/v31/JackalAnubis/robot2.jpg

EDIT--- a real quick sketch, Its more of some sort of anatomical alien...but whatever

http://img12.photobucket.com/albums/v31/JackalAnubis/robot3.jpg

[Kexe]

Very nice pictures today....I was sure someone would do a LEGO-ROBOT on mars...but no :(

[silentbrain]

sabre- woah, thanks! didn't know I was missed XD

elven req- cool, another elliot smith fan! he has nice mellow tunes

hunger artist- thanks for the tips, I need to start doing more thumbnails. I think it was explained to me before, movies back then didn't have any fancy gimmicks like cg to help carry them so they really had to be strong in the other areas.

nbt- I appreciate the crit man, I'm trying to get better at making successful illustration and it is helpful to know I didn't make it this time. :D

Will try harder next time...more skull sweat and less muscleing through.

[Dahsramu]

watup kiddies. great pics everyone!

damn, too many people to talk about, so I'll just comment on the three before me...

JackalAnubis - awesome colors! The perspective on the inside of the upper lip is off, and same with the chin... it gets kind of mushy and indistinguishable in his arm area, but hey, this is just a sketch. you did that with a mouse? damn...

Eyebooger - your stuff is always great! Though ure robot concept is off the chain and well done, I dont feel any sense of abandonment in the picture... it just looks like a cool robot standing there?

Lance - Love teh concept there... abandoned robot that's become someone's home! You could work on making the head less flat... there's very little depth in there...

Okay here's mine:

"The giant robot Vlexius had guarded the society of Veden for eons against all threats... Until one day the Vedenians found out that their planet was venturing closer and closer to their blistering white sun. This was a threat Vlexius could not help against, and soon the Veden's crafted space vessels and left their world, including Vlexius, behind. Left to face his grief against his inability to help those he had sworn to protect, Vlexius stood motionless, overlooking the dead cities, waiting and guarding the empty graveyard of buildings until the inevitable last days of his world..."

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/uarshad/art/conceptart/abandoned_robot.jpg

2 hours, Photoshop 7.

Guys I just want to say that I've been postin in this thread for 4 days now, and I think I've learnt a lot more about digital painting by just workin on these little sketches. Of course I've got MUCH MUCH more to learn, so please, if you have any thoughts, let me know. Good or bad, I would like to hear em. Thanks!

[Azmeos]

Messing around with PS drawing...

http://www.msu.edu/~voraravi/dsg/abandonedrobot.jpg

[S.C. Watson]

http://img9.photobucket.com/albums/v25/Oregano/Concept1/339-abandonedRobot-copy.jpg

[SABRE]

nbt:
SABRE: HOWS THAT LEFT BEHIND?

I DONT NOW IF I MISUNDERSTAND, BUT THE CONCEPT IS A ADOPTED GIRL, BUT WHEN HER PARENTS DISCOVER THAT IT IS NOT HUMAN, THEY ABANDONED HER...

I LIKE THE CONCEPT WHEN THE HUMANS TRY TO MAKE ARTIFICIAL HUMAN LIFE, BUT THEY CREATION PAY THE CONSEQUENCES....LIKE BLADE RUNNER ;)




BYEE.........................


PD: SORRY FOR THE ENGLISH!! ( HMMMM....I THINK SERIOUSLY MAKE THIS PHRASE MY SIGNATURE :rolleyes: )

[0kelvin]

With the threat of an impending meteor strike, Earth is in the midst of a massive global evacuation. Space on the ships is scarce and a lot of things get left behind. Valuables, pets, and even family robots like Ernie.

http://pluh.com/members/baldy/DSG/AbandonedRobot.jpg





0kelvin

[Virg]

hes supposed to be hanged =P
http://www.geocities.com/whitec100/bot.txt

[Faxtar]

blah.. still learnin 'painter'
http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v32/sigma9000/garden3_copy.gif

[Valcon Jet]

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffmajor/abandonedbot.jpg

[silentbrain]

take 2:
http://venimarolka.com/dump/013104-dsg-abandondedrobot2.jpg
help me ryan church kenobi, you're my only hope!

dahsramu- I thought that story was really touching, I dig those kinds of stories :D
I'm guessing that distant bright spot is the sun? Where's your horizon, I guess just under the bright spot? The way the clouds are drawn, the same on top and under, it looks like it should be much higher in the sky, like a portal or somesuch. I like the lighting you chose though, much.

[Dahsramu]

silentbrain - beautiful piece!!! the ligthing and ambience is excellent ...

and thanks for the critique... I was thnking the horizon is a little past the last row of buildings, but the whole landscape is supposed to be engulfed in a foggy mist from the water that has evaporated due to the heat from the closing sun so you cant really see it.

And you guessed correct, the light is the sun, and it is supposed to be a rare glimpse at the sun through the dense mist and cloud cover that is now blanketing the entire planet.

thanks for the words homie.

[Beatnik]

Iotrez and gumdrop thanks very much for the crits. I wish I had some more time but it's really late and I'm beat. Still needs work but I played around with it a little more.

http://www.zmans.com/misc/dsg_339b.jpg

Might try to define this more at some point but tonight isn't the night. Thanks again for the input.

[johanson]

Lance: I REALLY like your concept. However, you need to give us a few more visual clues as to what that concept is. Maybe the rest of the robot's body could be in the background. Then the viewer could make the jump from giant dead robot, to a head that's been turned into a house. Right now, without any explanation, it looks more like a house shaped like a head. We don't get any of its history just by looking at it.

I'd suggest not including written expanations of your daily sketches. Ask us what we think the image is of. I think you'll be able to improve even more quickly if you're giving unbiased feedback.

Again, I really dig your concept. That's why I'm taking the time to write this at almost 3 in the morning. I just hope my words are still making sense.

later,

-andrew

[Pixie]

Whoo, cuttin it close on this one. Need to spend some more time refining the background, but wanted to at least post what I got finished with tonight.
http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/v40/piccolo133/abandonrobot.jpg

[BlkCelebration]

A bit unoriginal, got inspired by Chrono Trigger. :D

Oekaki w/some help from photoshop

http://9doublebass.homestead.com/files/newart/aroboto1.jpg

[JackalAnubis]

I know its way late, but I was screwing with this sketch and found some cool color stuff with it. mostly just trying to get comftorable in painter.... Dahsramu--- yeah I need to get better with my stuff all round, I was kinda just screwing around though
more favs.... BlkCelebration, silientbrain take 2, white c, faxtar(love the scale), and oregano.......

http://img12.photobucket.com/albums/v31/JackalAnubis/robo6.jpg

[Blunder]

It's a bit late but I had a migraine attack in between :( but anyway here it is!

http://img13.photobucket.com/albums/v39/Blender/dsg339.jpg

together about 45 mins.. Oc3 all the way

[Fifthace]

Oregano - You got that idea from a Dean Koontz short story, am I right? I seem to remember something very similar to that.

[William b. Hand]

Oregano - You got that idea from a Dean Koontz short story, am I right? I seem to remember something very similar to that.

No no no... Not Koontz.

You are remembering Isaac Asimov's robot laws (http://www.kynson.freeserve.co.uk/Dave/asimov.htm) -- and, yes, these are them.

[Fifthace]

Originally posted by William b. Hand


No no no... Not Koontz.

You are remembering Isaac Asimov's robot laws (http://www.kynson.freeserve.co.uk/Dave/asimov.htm) -- and, yes, these are them. Ah, well Koontz utilized them for a short story he did. Oddly enough it was decent, too. My mistake.